The ballet of the good city sidewalk never repeats itself from place to place, and in any one place is always replete with new improvisations.

I still have a lot of family in America. I still have a lot of friends there. There is a lot that I admire there very much. When I find America getting too much criticized outside America, I want to tell them how many things are good about it.

There are two ways you encounter things in the world that are different. One is everything that comes in reinforces what you already believe and everything that you know. The other thing is that you stay flexible enough or curious enough and maybe unsure of yourself enough, or may be you are more sure of yourself - I don't know which it is - that the new things that come in keep reforming your world view.

Designing a dream city is easy; rebuilding a living one takes imagination.

I think that things are going to change just because people get too damn bored with what they have.

Detroit is largely composed, today, of seemingly endless square miles of low-density failure.

Power is supposed to be so corrupt. I don't think it's so much corrupt, in the usual sense of the word, as stupid and unrealistic. The more power a person has, the further he gets from reality.